Posts Tagged ‘topic authoring’

An outline for a passionate user guide

{ Posted on Sep 27 2006 by annegentle }
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From "Creating Passionate Users," Kathy Sierra follows up to her "let marketing write the manuals" post Her post on "Creating Passionate Users" is a long one but well worth reading -- How to get users to RT*M. Since ...Read More »

Turning information into DITA topics

{ Posted on Sep 14 2006 by annegentle }
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What would you do to make this particular type of content into topics? I've been looking at content at BMC and determining whether it belongs in a concept, reference, or task topic using DITA's definition of a ...Read More »

Notes from the Central Texas DITA User Group meeting

{ Posted on Apr 21 2006 by annegentle }
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Two speakers shared their takeaways from DITA 2006 and CMS 2006 I attended the central Texas DITA users group meeting last night, and wanted to write up some notes. We had two speakers share their thoughts after ...Read More »

Moving from Books to Topic-oriented Writing

{ Posted on Jan 27 2006 by annegentle }
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A report from JoAnn Hackos' talk at the Central Texas DITA Users Group meeting January 2006 JoAnn Hackos is well known in the technical writing community and is a member of the DITA Technical Committee. Recently she wrote the ...Read More »

DITA and wiki combo

{ Posted on Dec 05 2005 by annegentle }
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Darwin Information Typing Architecture, meet Wiki Time for me to geek out a bit on the convergence of a couple of tech pubs technologies that just might find a way to work together. I just found this tidbit on the ...Read More »